Special to the Echo
     Charleston, W. Va. Feb. 19. -- Delegate Moore's charges against the Penitentiary management has brought Marshall County into the limelight. Senator Grimes and Delegate McDowell are hard workers and are marking for themselves good records although not spectacular in their methods. Frequent reference to Marshall County has brought forth the inquiry as to her former representatives. The following is a complete list of them, not only to the West Virginia Legislature, but to that of the Mother State.
     Marshall County was organized in 1836, and her first senator was Honorable John Parriott, and first delegate was Hon. Alexander Newman, whose family names are still honored and familiar in the County. Parriott was a member of the Senate from Ohio county previous to 1836 and was also a member of the House from that County from 1827 to 1834 inclusive. He has the banner legislative career in point of service of all Marshall statesmen, with eighteen years to his credit.
     Besides Parriott, Alexander Newman, Jefferson Martin, Bushrod W. Price and Lewis S. Newman served in both houses. Hon. James Burley was the first Senator from Marshall to the West Virginia Legislature and served the longest withseven annual sessions to his credit. Senator Henry Solomon White, in the present session from Mingo County, represented Marshall away back in 1872, thirty-seven years ago.
     Only one Marshallite has been Speaker of the House, namely: Hon. S. R. Hanen. The County had only one delegate to the Virginia Legislature but has always had two to that of West Virginia. Previous to the Constitution of 1872, the regular sessions were annual, but since then they have been biennial. Since that time, the two or more termers are as follows: Sinclair, five terms; White, Nixon, and Hanen, three each, and McCombs and Harris, two each. The Parriotts lead the procession and include John, W. E. and T. E., with still more to follow. No senator since Burley has been re-elected, except Price, who however, did not immdeiately succeeed himself owing to the custom of rotation among the several counties.
     Senator Bushrod W. Price was one of the noted bolters in the Camden senatorial contest, voting for Lewis S. Newman, among others, contending that the laboring men of the United States ought to have at least one representative in the United States Senate. Messrs. Hanen and McCombs were in the Goff-Fleming gubernatorial fray, and participated in the memorable scenes of that long drawn out contest. Gen. Ewing was the last Marshall Democrat to serve in the House, although Arnold and Edwards, Independent Republicans, deprived White and Sinclair from an additional term each in 1885. Possibly the earliest survivors are Geo. Edwards who first served in 1869 and Dr. Thomas who succeeded him the following year.
     While not many of the honorable statesmen from Marshall have risen to fame and distinction, it is safe to say that with few exceptions they have honestly earned their four dollars per day. Formerly, the forty five day period was too long and the members waited with impatience for the final adjournment, but the State has grown so that it is now entirely too short for our Solons to dispatch their work with the mature consideration essential to proper legislation.
     The list above referred to follows:

Marshall County Members of the Legislature.
VIRGINIA
YEAR	SENATE	HOUSE
1836	John Parriott	Alexander Newman
1838	John Parriott	Alexander Newman
1839		Elbert H. Caldwell
1839-40		John Scott; unseated by E. H. Caldwell.
1840-1		Elbert H. Caldwell
1841-2	Alexander Newman	Jefferson T. Martin
1842-3	Alexander Newman	Jefferson T. Martin
1843-4	Alexander Newman	John Parriott
1844-5	Alexander Newman	John Parriott
1845-6	Alexander Newman	John Parriott
1846-7	John Parriott	Wylie H. Oldham
1847-8	John Parriott	Wylie H. Oldham
1848-9	John Parriott	William P. McDonald
1849-50	John Parriott	Garrison Jones
1850-1		William Jenney
1852	Jefferson Martin	Garrison Jones
1853-4		Garrison Jones
1855-6		Bushrod Price
1857-8		R. C. Holliday
1859-60		Robert Alexander
1861-2		James D. Morris
1863-4		(Vacancy)
1863-4	Jefferson Martin	James M. Hoge
WEST VIRGINIA
1863	James Burley	Michael Dunn, Jos. Turner
1864	James Burley	William Alexander, Michael Dunn
1865	James Burley	William Alexander, Thos. H. Trainer
1866	James Burley	Samuel B. Stidger, Thos. H. Trainer
1867	James Burley	S. T. Armstrong, Thos. F. Marsmann
1868	James Burley	S. T. Armstrong, John Ferguson
1869	James Burley	Geo. Edwards, Jno. Reynolds
1870	Ephraim Doolittle	Wm. R. Howe, E. C. Thomas
1871		Wm. R. McDonald, Lewis S. Newman
1872		Geo. W. Bier, Henry S. White
1872-3	Bushrod W. Price	A. O. Baker, Henry S. White
1875	Bushrod W. Price	Alfred Turner, Henry S. White
1877		G. S. McFadden, W. E. Parriott
1879	Lewis S. Newman	John Nixon, J. Alex Ewing
1881	Lewis S. Newman	W. D. Wayt, Josiah Sinclair
1883		John Nixon, W. S. Simonton
1885	Bushrod W. Price	Frank Arnold, Geo. Edwards
1887	Bushrod W. Price	Josiah Sinclair, J. T. McCombs
1889		J. T. McCombs, Samuel R. Hanen
1891	D. A. Dorsey	M. W. Miller, Samuel R. Hanen
1893	D. A. Dorsey	E. P. Bowman, Geo. B. Games
1895		L. B. Purdy, T. C. Pipes
1897	Samuel W. Matthews	Jno. W. Leach, Sam'l R. Hanen, Spkr.
1899	Samuel W. Matthews	Frank Legg, John Nixon
1901		W. H. Harris, Josiah Sinclair
1903	Chas. E. Carrigan	W. H. Harris, T. E. Parriott
1905	Chas. E. Carrigan	Charles McCamic, Josdiah Sinclair
1907		T. J. Parsons, Josiah Sinclair
1909	W. C. Grimes	H. W. McDowell, E. F. Moore
In all there have been eleven different senators and fifty five different delegates, hailing from the "Grand Old County of Marshall."